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Also known as Akiyuri, Akiyuri-tō

Anuchin Island (, , ) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Named after Dmitry Anuchin, Russian anthropologist, ethnographist and archaeologist. Island's Japanese name is derived from the Ainu language.

Key facts

Islands.name
Anuchin Island
Islands.native_name
Анучина Akiyuri
Islands.image_name
Akiyuri island 01.jpg
Islands.image_caption
Landsat picture of Anuchina Island
Islands.area_km2
5
Islands.location
North Pacific
Islands.archipelago
Kuril Islands
Islands.country
nothing under international law(Controlled by )
Islands.population
0 (2010)
Islands.ethnic_groups
Ainu, Japanese (formerly)

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Anuchin Island (, , ) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Named after Dmitry Anuchin, Russian anthropologist, ethnographist and archaeologist. Island's Japanese name is derived from the Ainu language.

==History== Anuchina was originally uninhabited. In 1799, under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, a trading post and settlement was established on the island by the villages of Akkeshi and Nemuro as a base for fishermen, and for trade with the Ainu, the native peoples of the Kurils, Sakhalin and Hokkaidō. Administration of the island came under the village of Habomai in Hokkaido during the Meiji period. The inhabitants of the island were mostly engaged in commercial fishing for Pollock and harvesting konbu.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anuchina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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